By Martin Poulter
We have a list of names of things, plus some idea of what type of things they are, and we want to integrate them into a database. I have been working on place names in Chinese, but it could just as well have been a list of author names in Arabic. This post reports on a procedure to get Wikidata identifiers — and thereby lots of other useful information — about the things in the list.
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2018/02/12/a-reconciliation-recipe-for-wikidata/